Amusement apparatus.



e. A. BUDGE. AMUSEMENT APPARATUS.

APPLICATION FILED DEO.27, 1909.

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Piltented Oct. 11, 1910:

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GEORGE A. BUDGE, OF BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA, ASSIGNOR, BY MESNE'ASSIGNMENTS,

10 AERIAL AMUSEMENT CONSTRUCTION COMPANY, OF PHOENIX, ARIZONA TERRI- TORY, A CORPORATION OF ARIZONA TERRITORY.

AMUSEMENT .errana'rus.

Specification of Letters Patent. Patented @Qg, 11, 1919,

Application filed. December 27, 1909. Serial No. 535,146.

' To all whom it may concern:

. Be it known that I, GEORGE A. Bones, a

. citizen of the United States, residing at the apparatus.

Berkeley, in the county of Alameda and State of Californim have invented new and useful Improvements in Amusement Apparatus, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to an apparatus which is designed for amusement purposes. It consists of aeroplanes, an elevated guide-way, and propelling mechanism.

It also comprises combinations of parts and details of construction which will be more fully explained by reference to the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a general perspective view of Fig. 2 is a side sectional elevation. Fig. 3 is a transverse section.

' It is the object of my invention to provide an apparatus for the amusementof patrons,

seats, 4, for passengers, and a motor 5 may be located beneath one of the seats, or within the casing 2,

The shafts are journaled across the lower part of the frame'or casing upon which'may be mounted wheels 6. These wheels are preferably flanged, and are adapted to run upon a mono-rail 7 which is supported upon any suitable structure 8, and may be elevated at any desired distance above the ground by suitable posts or standards 9. At

a point sufficiently below the rail 7 may be located a channel iron rail or rails 10, and braces 11 extend diagonally-from the lower plane A converging to a point contiguous to the rails 10. Antifriction wheels or rollers 12 are journaled in the lower part of this bracing structure", and are adapted to run upon the guide rails 10. It will be understood that these rails may be alain, and the Wheels grooved, with equal e ent to the rail construction above described, the object being in any caseto steady the apparatus, and prevent its overturning.

Upon the shaft of one of the wheels 6 is mounted a gear 13 which is engageable with the motor, either by means of a worm or screw 14, or by other suitable driving gearchain or belt, and through this the power of the motor is transmitted to rotate the wheel or drum 6 which rests upon the track. Itwill be understood that if more tractive power is required, as in case the track is designed to run uphill at certain, points of its course, the wheels'may be connected, or one of the wheels may be geared or corru ated, or otherwise constructed to have suthcient adhesion to'the track for propelling pur poses.

In order to heighten the illusion, I have shown a horizontally disposed.g.uide plane 15, and if desired a vertically swiveled guiding plane may also be connected. The plane 15 is suitably connected with a steering-post l6, and by means of a hand-Wheel 17 located convenient to the front seat, one of thepassengers in this seat may use the wheel to move the plane of planes, through the worm-gear l8-19.

The trackway may run upon a level, or it may he sinuous, rising and falling to imitate the movements which would take place with a poised aeroplane.

The current to drive the motor may be taken from one of the guide rails 10, this being insulated from. the framework, and may be grounded back on the monorail.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patentis- 1. An amusement apparatus consisting of aeroplanes having bearing-wheels, a track upon which said wheels are guided and movable, amotor, and intermediate connections by which power is transmitted to one or more of the guiding wheels, seats (iarried upon the apparatus, and a guiding plane and controlling wheel connected therewith.

2. An amusement apparatus including an elevated mono-rail, an aeroplane having centrally located, flanged bearing-wheels adapted to travel upon the rail, and seats transmitted from the motor to the bearing carried by the apparatus, turnable guiding wheels. 7

planes and steering-post and wheel con- In testimony whereof I have hereunto set nected therewith, and guide rail located my hand in the presence of two subscribing 5 below the bearing-rail, convergent braces witnesses.

extending from the plane toward said ide rail, and rollers carried by the brace me I GEORGE BUDGE' adapted to travel against the rail, a motor Witnesses: mounted in the body of the machine, and CHARLES A. PENFIELD,

10 intermediate mechanism by which power is 1 FREDERICK E. MAYNARD. 

